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It was by many successive steps of
dutiful service towards our republic that he arrived at this title of king;
but still, whatever leisure he had from the wars of the Roman people, he
devoted entirely to cultivating friendship and intimacy with our citizens,
and to uniting his affairs and interests to theirs. So that he was not only
considered a noble tetrarch, but also an excellent father of a family, and a
most industrious farmer and grazier. Did he, then, who, while a young man,
before he had arrived at his subsequent high rank, never did anything that
was inconsistent with the most rigid virtue and the greatest dignity, after
he had raised to himself the esteem in which he is now held, and when he had
become of so advanced an age, did he dance?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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